What day of the week was August 16, 1900?

The day of the week August 16th, 1900 fell on was a Thursday.

José Maria de Eça de Queirós the Portuguese author (b. 1845) died on this day in 1900.

The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2 the000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.